Hitting - Bat Path Drill

20141113_03a_Doherty_Bat PathHi. I'm Tim Doherty with insidebaseball.com. I'm here to show you today a very effective way to create a proper bat path to create backspin on a baseball. We simply get into our stance. Whatever our stance may be, we want to be athletic and balanced. We want to take a baseball, a rock, an object, and set it out in front of you, in front of the home plate, about 10 feet. We want to keep our eyes on the baseball out in front of us the entire time. We want to take our bat and take a full swing directly at the baseball. What this is going to do is enable us to learn how to properly get our bat head to go up the middle of the field and down in through the baseball. Into our stance. We want to look and take our hands and eyes directly at the object of baseball, whatever we put the object in front of us. We get into our stance. We keep our eyes directly on the ball, and we want to take our hands and barrel straight directly down and through the baseball. Stance and stride, barrel to the ball. Stance, stride, barrel to the ball. This was a very, very effective way to create a proper bat path to the baseball. I'm Tim Doherty with insidebaseball.com.

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Tim Doherty began his hitting coaching career at Oral Roberts University in 1989, then was hitting coach at Seminole Junior College from 1990 to 1992. In 1993, he became an assistant coach with the University of Southwestern Louisiana and from 1994 to 1997 was at Southwest Texas State University.
Doherty coached nine seasons with Kansas City T-Bones of the American Association (2003 - 11), serving as their hitting coach from 2003 - 09 and their manager from 2010-2011. Doherty assisted Boston Red Sox hitting coach Dave Magadan in 2012. In 2013 Tim coached the International League MVP, IL Rookie of the Year and Baseball America's Triple-A Player of the Year, Chris Colabello. He has also served as an associate scout for the Cleveland Indians. More Videos of Tim Doherty